Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government responsibility means stabilization of high business volume by control of the overall volume of spending and other general measures which do not dictate how men shall earn their livings, it would be a capitalistic blessing...
...America's highest standard of living, one of the highest in any tropical country. "In Costa Rica we don't have classes-there are rich and poor, but the rich are not so rich as in some countries, and the poor are not so poor." Coffee workers earn from 27? to 54? a day. Servants are paid from $1 to $5 a month. Government workers get along on $26 a month. Costa Ricans spend about half their income on food...
Bored with high school, truck driving and college, Peck discovered in University of California's Little Theater what he really liked to do. Journeying swiftly to Manhattan, he worked as a World's Fair barker to earn money for dramatic school, later got a job guiding tourists through Rockefeller Center, snared a couple of dramatic scholarships. Then Guthrie McClintic spotted him, gave him a few small parts and finally a big one (in Emlyn Williams' Morning Star) that led to Hollywood...
...glory, is anything but fantastic. He is a shrewd, hardheaded fellow who snaps off the lights over his Old Masters when he leaves the room. But he produces for adventure as well as profit. "In six months the Diamond Horseshoe makes all the money I'm allowed to earn in a year, so I will either vegetate and let ivy grow on my legs, or try to do something worth-while." Hollywood does not interest him: "It's fine for 15 days; the 16th day I start throwing empty gin bottles out of the window...
Postwar U.S. readers may get not only more and cheaper books but better ones. Wrote Publisher Bennett Cerf (Random House) in the New York Post last fortnight: "The creation of a great reprint and chain-store market simply means that a deserving book will earn far more than it ever did before. The added bait may even dim the siren song of Hollywood in young authors' ears and persuade them to concentrate, as they did long, long ago, on making their every book the very best that they know, how to write...